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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000. The result of an international meeting organized by the European Centre, this book reports from economists, social scientists and experts from government and inter-governmental institutions who came together to investigate the best way to overcome mass unemployment in Europe.
Introducing Innovative Employment Initiatives. Overview and Outlook; Market Governance and Macroeconomic Management in Employment Policies; Substitutabilities vs. Complementarities between Structural and Macroeconomic Policies; Employment Generation and Unemployment Strategies in Europe and the United States; The Divergence in Employment and Income Distribution in the EU and the U.S.; Cutting Welfare while Expanding Work Subsidies: The Odd Twist in American Welfare Reform; Advanced and Transitional European Political Economies; The Political Economy of a Consensus Society; Generating Employment in Economies in Transition; Reorganizing Flexible Labour Markets; Innovative Employment Initiatives: Some Thoughts on the Flexibility of the Wage Bargaining Process; Transitional Labour Markets; Reducing Unemployment by Increasing Employability - or by Reducing Working Time?; Clues to Overcoming Unemployment; The Reduction of Working Time, Pay and Employment; The New French Government's Policy on Job Creation and the Reduction of Working Hours; Designing Market Incentives vs. Distributing Benefits in Creating New Employment Opportunities; Creating Employment Incentives; Gendered Job Generation and Unequal Opportunities; Innovative Employment Initiatives and Equal Opportunities; Demographie Changes and Employment Opportunities; Demographie Shifts, Fiscal Pressures and Long-term Employment Opportunities
Biography
Bernd Marin
